Unmanually is a 24/7 AI executive assistant for business owners. You talk to it from your phone, in the van or between jobs, and it handles the office work: it answers your calls and books jobs on the call, sends quotes and invoices, chases payments, orders supplies, and keeps your inbox and calendar moving. Anything that matters waits for your yes.
Hours of running your business become minutes of talking.
An AI executive assistant is software that does the routine work a human executive assistant would: answering and returning calls, managing email and the calendar, sending documents, following up, and keeping track of what was promised to whom. The difference from a chatbot is that it acts on your behalf, inside limits you set, instead of only writing text for you to copy and paste.
Most AI executive assistants are built for people at a desk: you type into a chat window or forward emails. Unmanually is built for owners who aren't at a desk. You run it by voice, it reads back what it did, and it shows you the detail when you're at a screen.
| Office job | What it does |
|---|---|
| Phone calls | Answers 24/7 on your own business number, asks the right questions, books the job on the live call and texts a confirmation. Puts real emergencies through to you by rules you set. |
| Missed calls | Calls back anyone who hung up, within minutes, from your number. |
| Quotes | You say the job and the price; it writes the quote, sends it, and follows up until the customer says yes or no. |
| Invoices and payments | Sends the invoice when you say the job's done, through your own Stripe, QuickBooks or Xero, and sends payment reminders on the schedule you choose. |
| Suppliers | Orders parts and materials by email or on the supplier's own website, and tells you when it's confirmed. |
| Email, texts, calendar | Reads, drafts, replies and books across your connected accounts. |
| Memory | “What did I promise the Hendersons?” It answers from your own files and messages, not from a guess. |
| Daily briefing | Tells you what came in overnight, what it did, and the one thing that needs you. |
Speech is about three times faster than typing on a phone keyboard: 161 words a minute against 53, with 20% fewer errors, in a study by Stanford, the University of Washington and Baidu.1 Every interruption also costs about 23 minutes of refocusing.2 A spoken briefing replaces six apps and six context switches with one conversation, which is where the hours come back.
| Human office assistant | Answering service / AI receptionist | Unmanually | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours covered | ~40 of 168 a week | 24/7 | 24/7 |
| Answers and books calls | Yes | Yes | Yes, on your own number |
| Sends quotes, invoices, payment reminders | Yes | Usually not | Yes |
| Orders supplies, handles email and calendar | Yes | Usually not | Yes |
| Run by voice from the van | By phone call | No | Yes |
| Typical cost | ~$3,480/mo (BLS median receptionist pay $18.27/hr plus required payroll costs)3 | Free tiers up to several hundred dollars a month, rising with call volume | From $49/mo |
A good human assistant is still the right choice for some businesses, especially for work that needs judgment in person. Many owners start with Unmanually because they aren't ready to hire.
| Plan | Monthly | Founding annual | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49/mo | $35/mo | 1 |
| Growth (most popular) | $99/mo | $79/mo | 3 |
| Scale | $399/mo | $299/mo | 10 |
Every plan includes a 1:1 setup call, booked right after checkout. You bring your own Twilio or Telnyx account for calls and texts. No annual commitment on monthly plans. Compare plans.
1. Ruan et al., “Speech Is 3x Faster than Typing for English and Mandarin Text Entry on Mobile Devices,” Stanford, University of Washington and Baidu (2016).
2. Gloria Mark and colleagues, University of California, Irvine, research on the cost of interrupted work (about 23 minutes to return to a task).
3. BLS, receptionist median pay, May 2025, plus BLS employer costs for employee compensation.
An AI executive assistant is software that does the routine work of a human executive assistant, such as calls, email, calendar, documents and follow-ups, and acts on your behalf within limits you set. Unmanually is one you run by voice from your phone.
ChatGPT and Siri answer questions and control your phone. Unmanually is connected to your business accounts and does the work: it answers your business line, books jobs, sends quotes and invoices and follows up, then reports what it did.
No. Answering calls is one job out of many. It also handles quotes, invoices, payment reminders, supplier orders, email, texts and your calendar.
Yes. You talk to it hands-free and it reads back what it did. Anything you'd need to look at waits until you stop.
No. You connect your own Twilio or Telnyx account and your business number runs through it.
It tells you everything it did, you correct it by saying so, and it remembers the correction. You choose what needs your OK first, and outbound messages wait in an undo window.
Unmanually costs $49, $99 or $399 a month depending on seats and capacity, or $35, $79 or $299 a month on founding annual billing. Paid plans of standalone AI assistants we checked in October 2026 start at roughly $15 to $40 a month, and AI receptionists start at roughly $79 to $150 a month and rise with call volume.
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